Google's paying a whole lot of money to talk to politicians, and the consumer advocacy group known as Consumer Watchdog isn't at all happy about it. Consumer Watchdog condemned Google this morning for spending $1.38 million in the first quarter of this year. That expenditure works out to a 57 percent increase over what Google spent during the same period in 2009, and Consumer Watchdog's John M. Simpson observed as a result, "Google is relatively new to the influence-peddling game, but they're now one of the highest rollers in Washington."